Hello, it's Saturday. It's the Saturday show. It's me, Mike Peska, on the GIST feed. I'm going to

bring you a show that I did not on Saturday, but on Thursday. It's a show hosted by my friend Hattem.

He does the show called Live from America. Indeed, aren't they all? No, they're not because

Thames Egyptian. He sees things through other eyes? No, they're not because Thames Egyptian.

He sees things through other eyes.

I don't mean like the other quote unquote sociology textbook.

I mean, you know, sees him as an outsider.

He has those Egyptian eyes, those beady suspicious Egyptian eyes.

That's a great perspective.

And in part one of the interview, we talk about NPR and the defunding thereof.

And I don't really come at it with a scalpel.

I mean, I think I'm insightful and incisive, but I'm not here to bludgeon.

Here's another instrument.

Bludgeon poor NPR now literally poorer, billion dollars poorer with PBS than they were before.

And maybe here to give a warm, wet sponge, which you might use before the incision is to be enacted.

Yeah, poor NPR.

Do they have only themselves to blame?

That's a provocation you're just going to want to listen to.

And then in the second part of the interview, this is what Hattem and I talk about when we get together in real life.

Tell me about this mom-dani guy.

And so we do.

We discuss.

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